Kentucky Startup Blog written by Richard Stump

2 new startups

September 24, 2008

The featured companies at this months Venture Club were Lucky Day Studios & Connexxus.

Lucky Day Studios is a movie production company.  They are working on an original script called Unrequited.  They are raising 500K and have interest from actors Jeremy Sumpter (Friday Night Lights), Cody Linley (Hannah Montana show & Movie) and Hilarie Burton (One Tree Hill). The movie is to be directed by Jason Epperson who competed on the Fox show “On the lot”.

Connexxus is a software company that provides a compliance content management system for Sarbox compliance.  Founded by Jeff Reibel, a former sudit consultant and Chief accounting officer for a public company and Jim Orms, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Advanced Imaging Concepts, a software documentation company, which was acquired for $19 million.  They have raised over 400K to date, have revenue and are raising an additional $1 million for scale-up